Dr. Jian Zhang
is Adjunct Associate Professor
in School of Computer Science and Engineering University of New South Wales
(UNSW). Since August
2011, he has joined Advanced Analytics Institute (AAI) and School of Software,
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at University of Technology
(UTS), Sydney. (A/Prof
Jian Zhang@UTS)

Key Research Projects in UTS:

1. Microsoft External Collaboration Project (Pilot funded
project):Advanced
3D Deformable Surface Reconstruction and Tracking through RGB-D Cameras.
The aim of this project is to develop novel computer vision technology for
real time modelling and tracking of 3D dense and deformable surfaces using
general RGB-D cameras. The expected outcomes of this project will add
significant value to the current RGB-D camera platform when applied in the
common scenario in which the RGB-D camera does not move but the deformable
objects of interest are moving.

2. Nokia External Collaboration Project (Pilot funded project): Large Scale 3D Image Processing.This project is to develop a novel algorithm for 3D
image registration with different point clouds over 3D space. Our research
outcome is a critical technology for Nokia’s mobile phone application.

Dr. Jian Zhang was a Conjoint Associate Professor in the School of
Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales. Dr
Zhang earned his Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering from East
Normal University, China in 1982; a Masters of Science in Computer Science
from Flinders University, South Australia in 1994; and a PhD from School of
Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, UNSW@ADFA, Australian Defence Force Academy, at the
University of New South Wales in 1999.

From
January 2004 – July 2011, Dr Zhang was a Principal Researcher with
National ICT Australia (NICTA), where he is a
research leader of Multimedia and Video Communications Research at NICTA
Sydney Lab in UNSW Kensington campus. He leads three NICTA research projects
in the areas of computer vision, multimedia content analysis and management,
and multimedia content indexing and query. His research interests include
multimedia content management; video understanding; and video coding and
communication. Multimedia content management provides advanced algorithms to
manage, index search, and retrieve rich multimedia content. Video
understanding is concerned with the automatic or semi-automatic extraction of
semantic information from video sequences. Video coding and communication
provides an efficient method for video compression and robust transmission.
Apart from more than 90 paper publications and book chapters from his
research output, he was co-author of more than ten patents filed in US, UK,
Japan and Australia including five issued US patents.

In 1997, Dr. Zhang joined the Visual
Information Processing Lab, Motorola Labs in Sydney as a senior research
engineer and later became a principal research engineer and foundation
manager of Visual Communications Research Team, Motorola Labs in Sydney,
Australia. While at Motorola labs, he worked on a range of research projects
including image processing, video coding and communication, image
segmentation and multimedia content adaptation.

Dr.
Zhang is an IEEE Senior Member. He is the member of Multimedia Signal
Processing Technical Committee in Signal Processing Society, member of
Circuits and Systems Society. Dr. Zhang was Technical Program Chair, 2008
IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop; Associated Editor, IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT) and
Associated Editor, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing. Dr
Zhang was Guest Editor of T-CSVT for Video Technology for Special
Issue (March 2007) of the Convergence of Knowledge Engineering Semantics and
Signal Processing in Audiovisual Information Retrieval.

As a General Co-Chair,
Prof. Jian Zhang chaired the International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2012)
in Melbourne Australia 2012

Worapan
Kusakunniran’s paper “Multi-view Gait Recognition Based on Motion Regression using Multilayer Perceptron” has been awarded as the Best Biometrics Student Paper(BBSPA) at 20th
International Conference on Pattern Recognition, August, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey

Sakrapee (Paul) Paisitkriangkra, Chunhua Shen and Jian Zhang, “An
Experimental Evaluation of Local Feature for Pedestrian Classification”
has been selected as the best paperat International Conference on Digital Image Computing
2007: Techniques and Applications (DICTA)

Tuan Hue Thi’s
paper “Human Action Recognition and Localisation on Video using
Structured Learning of Local Space-Time Features” has been selected in the final list of
the bestpaper
at 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and
Signal-Based Surveillance, September, 2010, Boston, USA

My students’ career development

Dr. Sakrapee (Paul) Paisitkriangkrai has joined Australian Centre for
Visual Technology as research fellow in School of Computer Science, University
of Adelaide, Australia. http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~paulp/

Dr. Tuan Hue Thi has
joined Conon Information Systems Research Australia (CiSRA) since January 2012

Dr. Sijun Lu has joined
Defence Department of Australia since March 2013

Dr. Worapan Kusakunniran has joined Faculty of Information
and Communication Technology, Mahidol University, Thailand since May 2013

PhD scholarships are available to fund high
profile PhD candidates in the following areas:

·Image processing

·Multimedia Information
Retrieval

·Social multimedia
signal processing

·Video coding and transmission
over wireless networks

·Computer vision

·Surveillance video
content analysis

ØJian is the project leader for the following NICTA Research Projects at
NICTA Sydney Lab in Kensington